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pastor e Companion 



FOR 



WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS 



ROBERT G. SEYMOUR, D. D. 



PHILADELPHIA 

A. J. Rowland — 1420 Chestnut Street 
1898 



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Copyright 1898 by 
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PREFACE 



There are many books of forms for the use of ministers ; 

but most of them contain other matter besides that which is 

needed at a wedding or a funeral. This compact handbook 

has been prepared to meet a need often experienced. I 

desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to E. T. Hiscox, 

D. D. , for the use of two Marriage forms taken from his 

Star-book, published by Ward & Drummond, New York. 

They are Numbers II. and III., used by W. R. Williams, 

d. d., and R. H. Neale, d. d. This little book is sent forth 

with an earnest prayer that it may be useful to those who 

are the Ministers of life and death. 

Robert G. Seymour. 
Philadelphia, 1898. 



WEDDINGS 



MARRIAGE SERVICES 



i. 

The parties standing before the ?7iinister, the ?na?i at tht 
woman's right; after a short prayer, the minister shall 

say : 

THE ordinance of marriage is an institution of God. 
God saw in the Garden of Eden that it was not good 
for man to be alone, so he gave him a helpmeet. As it is 
an appointment of God it is to be entered into soberly and 
discreetly, as in his sight. In his holy word you will find 
the counsel which you will need in this mutual relationship. 
The vows are to be broken only by death itself. In token 
therefore of having chosen each other as partners for life, 
you may join your right hands. 

The ma?i taking the wo??ia?i y s right hand, the ?ninister shall 
say to the man : 

DO you A., take B., whom you hold by the right hand, to 
be your lawful and wedded wife ? Do you promise 
to love, to honor, to cherish, to protect ; forsaking all others, 
in sickness as well as in health, in adversity as well as pros- 
perity ; to cleave only unto her so long as you both shall 
live ? 

The man shall say, I do. Then the minister shall say unto 
the woman : 
O you B., take A., whom you hold by the right hand, 
to be your lawful and wedded husband ? Do vou 



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promise to love, to honor, to cherish ; forsaking all others, 
in sickness as well as in health, in adversity as well as 
prosperity, to cleave unto him so long as you both shall live ? 

The woman shall say, I do. The minister shall then say, 
handing the ring to the man : 



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rOU will seal your vows with the ring. 



The man, taking the ring from the minister, and putting it 
on the woman' s Jinger, shall repeat after the 7ni?tister : 

WITH this ring I thee wed ; with my heart' s faithful 
affections and my worldly goods I thee endow, in 
the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. 

The minister shall then pray. After prayer the parties 
joining hands again, the minister shall say : 

AND now by virtue of authority vested in me, by the 
laws of this State and as a minister of Jesus Christ 
(for this is a civil and religious service), I pronounce you 
husband and wife. And what God hath joined together let 
not man put asunder. 

The minister shall then pronounce this benediction : 

THE Lord bless thee, and keep thee ; the Lord make his 
face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee ; the 
Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee 
peace. 

II. 

The parties standing before the 7ninister, he shall say : 

IVINE Revelation has declared marriage to be honor- 
able in all. It is an institution of God, ordained in 



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the time of man's innocency, before he had sinned against 
his Maker, and been yet banished from Paradise. It was 
given in wisdom and in kindness, to repress irregular affec- 
tion, to support social order, and to provide that, through 
well-ordered families truth and holiness might be trans- 
mitted from one age to another. Earlier, therefore, than 
all laws of merely human origin, it lies at the basis of all 
human legislation and civil government, and the peace and 
well-being of the nation and land. 

We learn from the history of our Saviour that he honored 
a marriage festival with his presence, and wrought there the 
beginning of his miracles. And by his Holy Spirit, speak- 
ing through his apostle, he has selected the union thus 
formed, as an apt emblem of the union, endeared and in- 
dissoluble, that binds together himself and his own ran- 
somed Church. 

A relation that is thus consecrated should not be formed 
thoughtlessly and irreverently ; but advisedly in the fear of 
God, and as for the purposes for which he, its Divine 
Author, ordained and blessed matrimony. 

And now, as in his sight, and as you will answer in the 
day when all hearts shall be made manifest, I charge you 
to declare if there be any cause that should prevent your 
lawful union. 

From your silence I presume there is none. Will the 
parties now join their right hands ? 

Then he shall say to tJu man : 

DO you, A. B., take C. D., whom you now hold by the 
hand, as your true and lawful wife ; and, God help- 
ing you, will you love, cherish, honor, and protect her, 
cleaving only and ever unto her, until God by death shall 
separate you ? 



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He shall answer, I do. Then to the woman : 

DO you, C. D., take A. £., whom you now hold by the 
hand, as your true and lawful husband ; and, God 
helping you, will you love, cherish, honor, and obey him, 
cleaving only and ever unto him, until God by death shall 
separate you ? 

She shall answer, I do. 

Where a ring is used, the groom is here to place it on the 
bride* s hand ; the minister adds these wards: 

THE circle, the emblem of eternity ; and gold, the type 
of what is least tarnished and most enduring ; it is to 
show how lasting and imperishable the faith now mutually 
pledged. 

As the union now formed is to be sundered only by death, 
it becomes you to consider the duties you solemnly assume. 
If these be remembered and faithfully discharged, they will 
add to the happiness of this life, lightening by dividing its 
inevitable sorrows, and heightening by doubling all its 
blessedness. But if these obligations be neglected and 
violated, you cannot escape the keenest misery, as well as 
the darkest guilt. 

It is the duty of the husband to provide for the support 
of his wife, to shelter her from danger, and to cherish for 
her a manly and unalterable affection, it being the com- 
mand of God's word that husbands love their wives, even 
as Christ loved the Church, and gave his own life for her. 

It is the duty of the wife to reverence and obey her hus- 
band, and to put on the ornament of a meek and quiet 
spirit, which is, in God' s sight, an ornament of great price, 
his word commanding that wives be subject unto their own 
husbands, even as the Church is subject unto Christ. 



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It is the duty of both to delight each in the society of 
the other ; to remember that, in interest and in reputation 
as in affection, they are to be henceforth one and undi- 
vided ; to preserve an inviolable fidelity, and to see to 
it that what God has joined thus together, man never puts 
asunder. 

PRAYER. 

OUR Father, who art in Heaven, who hast, in thy wise 
and tender care for mankind, ordained and blessed 
the institution of matrimony, we pray of Thee, graciously 
to regard Thy servant and handmaiden, who have thus 
solemnly pledged themselves to each other, and sworn unto 
Thee ; that, through Thy good care and guidance, they may 
evermore remember and keep these their vows ; be kept 
themselves in unbroken concord and sympathy all the days 
of their earthy life ; and be at the last, with all those most 
near and most dear unto them, gathered an unbroken 
household to Thy right hand on the day of judgment. 
And may all of us, here assembled, be of that blessed 
company who shall be called to go in to the Marriage Sup- 
per of the Lamb. And this we ask, only in the name and 
through the merits of Him, Thine own Son and our Re- 
deemer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

BENEDICTION. 

IN pursuance of your solemn pledges thus given and in 
the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, 
I pronounce you Husband and Wife : and may the God 
before whom you have thus vowed, look upon you, to make 
you blessed and a blessing, in all your earthly ways ; and 
grant you, when the snares and trials of this life are ended, 
a glad and eternal reunion in heaven. Amen. 



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III. 
The.parties standing before the minister, he shall say : 

MARRIAGE is a joyous occasion. It is connected in 
our thoughts with the magic charm of home, and 
with all that is pleasant and attractive in the tenderest and 
most sacred relations of life. When celebrated in Cana of 
Galilee, it was sanctioned and cheered by the presence of 
the Lord himself ; and is declared by an inspired Apostle, 
to be honorable in all. 

AND now, if you A. B. and C. D. have at present ap- 
peared for the purpose of being joined in legal wed- 
lock, you will please to signify this intention, by uniting 
your right hands. 

The ?ninister shall then say to the man : 

A. B., T^\0 y° u ta ^ e tne lady whom you now hold by the 
-L' hand, to be your lawful and wedded wife ? 

Answer, I do ; or assent. ' 

DO you promise to love and cherish her, in sickness and 
in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, 
and forsaking all others keep thee only unto her, so long as 
you both shall live ? 

Answer, I do ; or assent. Then to the woman : 

C. D., \^\® y° u * a k e tne gentleman who now stands by 
-L' your side and who holds you by the hand, to 
be your lawful and wedded husband ? 

Answer, I do ; or assent. 



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DO you promise, to love and cherish him, in sickness 
and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for 
worse, and forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so 
long as you both shall live ? 

, Inswer, I do ; or assent. 

YOU mutually promise in the presence of God and of 
these witnesses, that you will at all times and in all 
circumstances, conduct yourselves toward one another as 
becometh Husband and Wife? 



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Both answer, I do ; or assent. 

HAT you will love, cherish and adhere to one another, 
until separated by death ? 



Both answer, I do ; or assent. If a ring be used, the min- 
ister will say to the bridegroom : 



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OU will please place this ring on the hand of your 
affianced Bride. . . And reunite your hands. 

He shall continue : 



HAVING taken these pledges of your affection and 
vows of fidelity, I do therefore, by authority of the 
laws of this State, sanctioned by divine authority, pro- 
nounce you, A. B. and C. D., lawfully married, Husband 
and Wife ; in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and 
of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 



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HAT, therefore, God hath joined together, let not 
man put asunder. 

PRAYER. 



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THE EPISCOPAL MARRIAGE SERVICE. 

At the day and time appointed for solemnization of matri- 
mony, the persons to be married shall come into the body 
of the church, or shall be ready in some proper house, 
with their friends a?id neighbors ; and there standi7ig to- 
gether, the man on the right ha7id and the woman on 
the left, the minister shall say : 

DEARLY beloved : We are gathered together here in 
the sight of God, and in the face of this company, 
to join together this Man and this Woman in holy matri- 
mony ; which is commended of St. Paul to be honorable 
among all men : and therefore is not by any to be entered 
into unadvisedly or lightly ; but reverently, discreetly, ad- 
visedly, and in the fear of God. Into this holy estate, 
these two persons present come now to be joined. If any 
man can show just cause why they may not lawfully be 
joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter forever 
hold his peace. 

And, also, speaking unto the persons who are to be married, 
he shall say : 

I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at 
the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all 
hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any 
impediment why ye may not be lawfully joined together in 
matrimony, ye do now confess it. For be ye well assured, 
that if any persons are joined together otherwise than as 
God's word doth allow, their marriage is not lawful. 

If no impediment shall be alleged, the minister shall say to 

the man : 
M. t \ \ TILT thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, 
V V to live together after God' s ordinance, in the 



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holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou love her, comfort 
her, honor, and keep her, in sickness and in health ; and, 
forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye 
both shall live ? 

The man shall answer, I will. 

Then shall the niinister say to the won an : 

N. t T I 7ILT thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, 
VV to live together after God's ordinance, in the 
holy estate of matrimony ? Wilt thou obey him and serve 
him, love, honor, and keep him, in sickness and in health ; 
and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto him, so long 
as ye both shall live ? 

The woman shall answer, I will. 

Then shall the minister say : 

Who giveth this Woman to be married to this Man ? 

Then shall they give their troth to each other i?i this man- 
ner. The minister, receivi?ig the woman at her father" s 
or friend' s hands, shall cause the man with his right 
hand to take the woman by her right hand, and to say 
after him as follow eth : 

IM. take thee N. to my wedded wife, to have and to hold 
from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer 
for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, 
till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance ; 
and thereto I plight thee my troth. 

7hen shall they loose their hands ; and the womayi with 
her right hand taking the man by his right hand, shall 
likewise say after the minister : 



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IN. take thee M. to my wedded husband, to have and to 
hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for 
richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love, cherish, 
and to obey, till death us do part, according to God's holy 
ordinance ; and thereto I give thee my troth. 

7 hen shall they again loose their hands ; and the man shah 
give unto the woman a ring. And the mi?iister taking 
the ring shall deliver it wito the man, to put it upon the 
fourth fi?iger of the womari s left hand. And the man 
holding the ring there, and taught by the minister, shall 
say : 

WITH this Ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly 
goods I thee endow : In the name of the Father, 
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 

Then the man, leaving the ring upon the fourth finger of 
the woman' $ left hand, the minister shall say : 

Let us pray. 

OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. 
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, 
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And 
forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass 
against us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver 
us from evil. Amen. 

O ETERNAL God, Creator and Preserver of all man- 
kind, Giver of all spiritual grace, the Author of 
everlasting life ; Send thy blessing upon these thy servants, 
this man and this women, whom we bless in thy Name ; 
that, as Isaac and Rebecca lived faithfully together, so these 
persons may surely perform and keep the vow and covenant 
betwixt them made, (whereof this Ring given and received 



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is a token and pledge), and may ever remain in perfect love 
and peace together, and live according to thy laws ; through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Then shall the minister join their right hands together, and 

say : 

Those whom God hath joined together let no man put 
asunder. 

Then shall the minister speak unto the company : 

FORASMUCH as M. and N, have consented together 
in holy wedlock, and have witnessed the same before 
God and this company, and thereto have given and pledged 
their troth, each to the other, and have declared the same 
by giving and receiving a Ring, and by joining hands ; I 
pronounce that they are Man and Wife, In the Name of the 
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. 

And the minister shall add this blessing : 

GOD the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost, 
bless, preserve, and keep you ; the Lord mercifully 
with his favour look upon you, and fill you with all spiritual 
benediction and grace ; that ye may so live together in this 
life, that in the world to come ye may have life everlasting. 
Amen. 



FUNERALS 



FUNERAL SERVICES 



FRAILTY 

MAN that is born of a woman is of few days and full 
of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is 
cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not. — 
Job 14 : 1, 2. 

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep 
sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, 
which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed 
before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood 
still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image 
was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a 
voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God ? 
shall a man be more pure than his Maker ? Behold, he put 
no trust in his servants ; and his angels he charged with 
folly : How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, 
whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before 
the moth ? They are destroyed from morning to evening : 
they perish for ever without any regarding it. Doth not 
their excellency which is in them go away ? they die, even 
without wisdom. — Job 4 : 13-21. 

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up : he woundeth, and 
his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six trou- 
bles : yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. In 
famine he shall redeem thee from death : and in war from 
the power of the sword. Thou shalt be hid from the 
-courge of the tongue : neither shalt thou be afraid of 

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destruction when it cometh. At destruction and famine 
thou shalt laugh : neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts 
of the earth. For thou shalt be in league with the stones 
of the field : and the beasts of the field shall be at peace 
with thee. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall 
be in peace ; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt 
not sin. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, 
and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. Thou shalt 
come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn 
cometh in in his season. Lo this, we have searched ^it, so 
it is ; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. — Job j .- 18—27. 
my days are swifter than a post : they flee away, 
they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships : 
as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. If I say, I will for- 
get my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and com- 
fort myself : I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that 
thou wilt not hold me innocent — Job g : 2J-28. 

Go to now, ye that say. To day or to morrow we will go 
into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and 
sell, and get gain : Whereas ye know not what shall be on 
the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, 
that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 
For that ye ought to say If the Lord will, we shall live, 
and do this, or that — James 4: 13-ij. 

See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as 
e. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. — Eph. 
5 *5> i6- 

VANITY. 

I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with 
my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while 
the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held 
my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. 



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My heart was hot within me ; while I was musing the fire 
burned : then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to 
know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is ; 
that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made 
my days as a handbreadth ; and mine age is as nothing 
before thee : verily every man at his best state is altogether 
vanity. Surely every man walketh in a vain show : surely 
they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and 
knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what 
wait I for ? my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my 
transgressions : make me not the reproach of the fool- 
ish. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou 
didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me : I am con- 
sumed by the blow of thine hand. When thou with 
rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his 
beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man 
is vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto 
my cry ; hold not thy peace at my tears : for I am a stranger 
with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. O spare 
me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be 
no more. — Ps. jg : 1-13* 

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are 
not his days also like the days of a hireling ? As a servant 
earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for 
the reward of his work ; So am I made to possess months 
of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night 
be gone ? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the 
dawning of the day. My flesh is clothed with worms and 
clods of dust ; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 
My days are swifter than a weaver' s shuttle, and are spent 
without hope. O remember that my life is wind : mine eye 
shall no more see good. The eye of him that hath seen 



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me shall see me no more ; thine eyes are upon me, and I 
am not. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away ; 
so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his 
place know him any more. Therefore I will not refrain my 
mouth ; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit ; I will 
complain in the bitterness of my soul. — Job 7 : /-//. 

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath : we spend 
our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are 
threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they 
be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow ; 
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knoweth the 
power of thine anger ? even according to thy fear, so is thy 
wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply 
our hearts unto wisdom. Return, O Lord, how long ? and 
let it repent thee concerning thy servants. O satisfy us 
early with thy mercy ; that we may rejoice and be glad all 
our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein 
thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen 
evil. — Ps. go : 9-15. 

CERTAINTY. 

BE still, and know that I am God. — Ps. 46 : 10. 
Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure 
of my days, what it is ; that I may know how frail I am. — Ps. 

39 .* 4- 

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the 
house appointed for all living. — Job 30 : 23. 

I am the good Shepherd, and know my sheep, and am 
known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know 
I the Father : and I lay down my life for the sheep. — John 
10 : 14, 13. 

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that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto 
him against that day. — 2 Tim. 1 : 12. 

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand 
at the latter day upon the earth : And though after my skin 
worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God : 
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, 
and not another ; though my reins be consumed within 
me. — Job ig : 25-27. 

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle 
were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not 
made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we 
groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house 
which is from heaven : If so be that being clothed we 
shall not be found naked. For we that are in this taber- 
nacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be 
unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swal- 
lowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the 
selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the 
earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, 
knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body we are 
absent from the Lord : (For we walk by faith, not by 
sight :) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be 
absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. — 
2 Cor. 5 : i-S. 

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, con- 
cerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as 
others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus 
died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus 
will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the 
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto 
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are 
asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the 



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trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first : 
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up to- 
gether with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : 
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort 
one another with these words. — / Thess. 4 : 13-18. 

VICTORY. 

ALWAYS bearing about in the body the dying of the 
Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be 
made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway 
delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of 
Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then 
death worketh in us, but life in you. We having the same 
spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and 
therefore have I spoken ; we also believe, and therefore 
speak ; knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus 
shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with 
you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant 
grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to 
the glory of God. For which cause we faint not ; but 
though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is re- 
newed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but 
for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and 
eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things 
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen : for 
the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things 
which are not seen are eternal. — 2 Cor. 4 : 10-18. 

Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt 
guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to 
glory. Whom have I in Heaven but thee? and there is 
none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and 
my heart faileth : but God is the strength of my heart, and 
my portion for ever. — Ps. 73 : 23-26, 



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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall 
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or naked- 
ness, or peril, or sword ? As it is written, For thy sake we 
are killed all the day long ; we are accounted as sheep for 
the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than 
conquerors through him that loved us. For I am per- 
suaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin- 
cipalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to 
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall 
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in 
Christ Jesus our Lord. — Rom. 8 : jj-jg. 

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my 
departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have 
finished my course, I have kept the faith : Henceforth 
there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the 
Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day : and 
not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appear- 
ing. — 2 Tim. 4:6-8. 

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall 
also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, 
brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom 
of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Be- 
hold, I shew you a mystery ; we shall not all sleep, but we 
shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the 
dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this 
mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible 
shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have 
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying 
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victor)-. O 
death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is thy victory ? 
The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the 



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law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved 
brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding 
in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your 
labour is not in vain in the Lord. — i Cor. ij : 49-J8. 

HEAVEN. 

AND I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, 
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest 
from their labours ; and their works do follow them. — Rev. 

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed away ; and there 
was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jeru- 
salem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as 
a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great 
voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall 
be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, 
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain : for the 
former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the 
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said 
unto me, Write : for these words are true and faithful. 
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, 
the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is 
athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. He that 
overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be his God, 
and he shall be my son. — Rev. 21 : 1-7. 

And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What 
are these which are arrayed in white robes ? and whence 



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came they ? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. 
And he said to me, These are they which came out of great 
tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before 
the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his 
temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among 
them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
more ; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall 
feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of 
waters : and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. 
—Rev. 7 : 13-17- 

Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God, be- 
lieve also in me. In my Father's house are many man- 
sions : if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to 
prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place 
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself ; 
that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go 
ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, 
Lord, we know not whither thou goest ; and how can we 
know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the 
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father, but 
by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my 
Feather also : and from henceforth ye know him, and have 
seen him. — John 14 : 1-7. 

But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, 
neither have entered into the heart of man, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God 
hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit : for the Spirit 
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God, — / Cor. 
2 : g-10. 

Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, 
be with me where I am ; that they may behold my glory, 



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which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the 
foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world 
hath not known thee : but I have known thee, and these 
have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared 
unto them thy name, and will declare it ; that the love 
wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in 
them. — John ij : 24-26. 

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things 
which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand 
of God. Set your affection on things above, not on 
things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is 
hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, 
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 
— Col 3 : 1-4. 

RESURRECTION. 

NOW if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, 
how say some among you that there is no resurrec- 
tion of the dead ? But if there be no resurrection of the 
dead, then is Christ not risen : And if Christ be not risen, 
then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. 
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God ; because we 
have testified of God that he raised up Christ : whom he 
raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For if the 
dead rise not, then is not Christ raised : And if Christ be 
not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins. 
Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are per- 
ished. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are 
of all men most miserable. But now is Christ risen from 
the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 
For since by man came death, by man came also the res- 
urrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own 



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order : Christ the firstfruits ; afterward they that are Christ's 
at his coming. Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not 
quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, 
thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it 
may chance of wheat, or of some other grain : but God 
giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed 
his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh : but there is 
one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another 
of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial 
bodies, and bodies terrestrial : but the glory of the celestial 
is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There 
is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, 
and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from 
another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the 
dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption: 
It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory : it is sown in 
weakness, it is raised in power : it is sown a natural body, 
it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and 
there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first 
man Adam was made a living soul ; the last Adam was 
made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which 
is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterward that 
which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy : 
the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, 
such are they also that are earthy : and as is the heavenly, 
such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have 
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image 
of the heavenly. — / Cor. ij : 12-23 >' 3^-49- 

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the ex- 
cellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for 
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count 
them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in 
him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of tho 



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law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the 
righteousness which is of God by faith : that I may know 
him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship 
of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death ; 
if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the 
dead. For our conversation is in heaven ; from whence 
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : Who 
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like 
unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby 
he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. — Phil. 
j : 8-1 1, 20, 2i. 

Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been 
here, my brother had not died. But I know, that even 
now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 
Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. Martha 
saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the res- 
urrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the 
resurrection, and the life : he that believeth in me, though 
he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and 
believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this ? She 
saith unto him, Yea, Lord : I believe that thou art the 
Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. 
— John ii : 21-27. 



SERVICE FOR A CHILD. 
I. 

MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full 
of trouble. He cometh forth as a flower, and is 
cut down : he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 
— Job 14 : 1, 2. 



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And she went and sat her down over against him, a 
good way off, as it were a bow shot, for she said, Let 
me not see the death of the child. And she sat over 
against him, and lifted up her voice and wept. — Gen. 
21 : 16. 

For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me 
my petition which I asked of him ; therefore also I have 
lent him to the Lord. — / Sam. i : 27, 28. 

And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he 
went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his 
father, My head, my head ! And he said to a lad, Carry 
him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and 
brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, 
and then died. And she went up, and laid him on the bed 
of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went 
out. And she called unto her husband, and said, Send 
me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the 
asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again. 
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to-day ? it is 
neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be 
well. Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, 
Drive, and go forward ; slack not thy riding for me, except 
I bid thee. So she went and came unto the man of God to 
mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of 
God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi, his servant, 
Behold, yonder is that Shunammite : Run now, I pray thee, 
to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee ? is it 
well with thy husband ? is it well with the child ? And she 
answered, It is well. And when she came to the man of 
God to the hill, she caught him by the feet : but Gehazi 
came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, 
Let her alone ; for her soul is vexed within her : and the 
Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. Then 

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she said, Did I desire a son of my lord ? did I not say, Do 
not deceive me ? Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy 
loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way : if 
thou meet any man, salute him not ; and if any salute thee, 
answer him not again : and lay my staff upon the face of 
the child. And the mother of the child said, As the Lord 
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And 
he arose, and followed her. And Gehazi passed on before 
them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child ; but 
there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went 
again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not 
awaked. And when Elisha was come into the house, be- 
hold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. He went 
in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and 
prayed unto the Lord. And he went up, and lay upon 
the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes 
upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands : and he 
stretched himself upon the child : and the flesh of the 
child waxed warm. Then he returned, and walked in the 
house to and fro ; and went up, and stretched himself upon 
him : and the child sneezed seven times, and the child 
opened his eyes. And he called Gehazi, and said, Call 
this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was 
come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. Then she 
went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the 
ground, and took up her son, and went out. — 2 Kings 4 : 

18-37* 

And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in 
the midst of them. And said, Verily I say unto you, Ex- 
cept ye be converted, and become as little children, ye 
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever 
therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same 
is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall 



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receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. — 
Matt 18 : 2-5. 



SERVICE FOR A CHILD. 
II. 

And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child 
died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that 
the child was dead : for they said, Behold, while the child 
was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken 
unto our voice : how will he then vex himself, if we tell 
him that the child is dead ? But when David saw that his 
servants whispered, David perceived that the child was 
dead ; therefore David said unto his servants, Is the child 
dead ? And they said, He is dead. Then David arose 
from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and 
changed his apparel, and came into the house of the Lord, 
and worshipped : then he came to his own house ; and 
when he required, they set bread before him, and he did 
eat. Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this 
that thou hast done ? thou didst fast and weep for the child, 
while it was alive ; but when the child was dead, thou didst 
rise and eat bread. And he said, While the child was yet 
alive, I fasted and wept : for I said, Who can tell whether 
God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But 
now he is dead, wherefore should I fast ? can I bring him 
back again ? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to 
me. — 2 Sam, 12 : 18-2 j. 

And they brought young children to him, that he should 
touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought 
them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, 
and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto 



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me, and forbid them not : for of such is the kingdom 
of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not re- 
ceive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not 
enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, and 
put his hands upon them, and blessed them. — Mark 10 : 
13-16. 

The Lord is my shepherd ; I shall not want. He mak- 
eth me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me be- 
side the still waters. He restore th my soul : he leadeth 
me in the paths of righteousness for his name' s sake. Yea, 
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I 
will fear no evil : for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy 
staff they comfort me. — Ps. 23 : 1-4. 



THE SERVICE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 

The minister meeting the corpse at the entrance of the church 
(or graveyard), and goiiig before it shall say: 

I AM the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord : he that 
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he 
live ; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never 
die. — St. John 11 : 23, 26. 

I know that my Redeemer liveth, and he shall stand at 
the latter day upon the earth. And though after my skin 
worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God : 
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, 
and not another. — Job ig : 23, 26, 27. 

We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we 
can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath 
taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. — / Tim. 
6:7; Job 1 : 21. 






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After they are come into the church shall be said, or sung, 
the following anthem, taken fro?n the thirty -eighth and 
7iinetieth Psalms: 

LORD, let me know my end, and the number of my 
days ; that I may be certified how long I have to 
live. Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span 
long, and my age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; 
and verily every man living is altogether vanity. For man 
walketh in a vain shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain ; 
he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather 
them. And now, Lord, what is my hope ? Truly my hope 
is even in thee. Deliver from all mine offences ; and make 
me not a rebuke unto the foolish. When thou with rebukes 
dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to con- 
sume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment : every 
man therefore is but vanity. Hear my prayer, O Lord, 
and with thine ears consider my calling ; hold not thy peace 
at my tears : For I am a stranger with thee, and a so- 
journer, as all my fathers were. O spare me a little, that I 
may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no 
more seen. Lord, thou hast been our refuge, from one gen- 
eration to another. Before the mountains were brought 
forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art 
God from everlasting, and world without end. Thou turnest 
man to destruction ; again thou sayest, Come again, ye 
children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but 
as yesterday ; seeing that is past as a watch in the night. 
As soon as thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep ; 
and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it 
is green, and groweth up ; but in the evening it is cut 
down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in 
thy displeasure ; and are afraid at thy wrathful indigna- 



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tion. Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee ; and our 
secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For when 
thou art angry, all our days are gone : we bring our years 
to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our 
age are threescore years and ten ; and though men be so 
strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength 
then but labour and sorrow ; so soon passeth it away, and 
we are gone. So teach us to number our days, that we 
may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Glory be to the 
Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; as it was 
in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without 
end. Amen. 

Then shall follow the lesson, taken out of the fifteenth chap- 
ter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians : 

i Cor. 15 : 20. 

NOW is Christ risen from the dead, and become the 
firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man 
came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made 
alive. But every man in his own order : Christ the first- 
fruits ; afterward they that are Christ's, at his coming. 
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the 
kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put 
down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must 
reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last 
enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put 
all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things 
are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which 
did put all things under him. And when all things shall 
be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be 
subject unto Him that put all things under him, that God 
may be all in all. Else what shall they do which are bap- 



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tized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are 
they then baptized for the dead ? and why stand we in 
jeopardy every hour ? I protest by your rejoicing, which I 
have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If after the 
manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what 
advantageth it me, if the dead rise not ? let us eat and drink, 
for to-morrow we die. Be not deceived : evil communi- 
cations corrupt good manners. Awake to righteousness, 
and sin not ; for some have not the knowledge of God. I 
speak this to your shame. But some man will say, How 
are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? 
Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except 
it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that 
body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, 
or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath 
pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is 
not the same flesh, but there is one kind of flesh of men, 
another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of 
birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terres- 
trial ; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of 
the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and 
another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; 
for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is 
the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption ; it 
is raised in incorruption : it is sown in dishonour ; it is 
raised in glory : it is sown in weakness ; it is raised in 
power : it is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual 
body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual 
body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made 
a living soul ; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 
Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which 
is natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first 
man is of the earth, earthy : the second man is the Lord 



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from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they that are 
earthy : and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are 
heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, 
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I 
say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the king- 
dom of God ; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 
Behold, I show you a mystery : we shall not all sleep, but 
we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of 
an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be 
changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, 
and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal 
shall have put on immortality ; then shall be brought to 
pass the saying that is written, . Death is swallowed up in 
victory. O death, where is thy sting ? O grave, where is 
thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength 
of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us 
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my 
beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always 
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know 
that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 

When they come to the grave, while the corpse is made 
ready to be laid into the earth, shall be sung or said : 

MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time 
to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and 
is cut down, like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, 
and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we 
are in death : of whom may we seek for succour, but of 
thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased ? Yet, 
O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and 
most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains 






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of eternal death. Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our 
hearts ; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer ; but spare 
us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merci- 
ful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, 
at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee. 

Then, while the earth shall be cast upon the body by some 
standing by, the minister shall say : 

FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God, in his 
wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of 
our deceased brother, we therefore commit his body to the 
ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; look- 
ing for the general resurrection in the last day, and the life 
of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; at 
whose second coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, 
the earth and the sea shall give up their dead ; and the cor- 
ruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall be changed, 
and made like unto his own glorious body ; according to 
the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things 
unto himself. 

Then shall be said, or sung : 

I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, 
From henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the 
Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their 
labours. — Rev. 14 : 13. 

Then the minister shall say the Lord" s Prayer: 

OUR Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, 
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, 
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And 
forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass 
against us. And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver 
us from evil. Amen. 



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Then the minister shall say one or both of the following 
prayers, at his discretion. 

ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of those 
who depart hence in the Lord, ana with whom the 
souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the 
burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity : We give thee 
hearty thanks for the good examples of all those thy serv- 
ants, who, having finished their course in faith, do now 
rest from their labours. And we beseech thee, that we, 
with all those who are departed in true faith of thy holy 
Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both 
in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory ; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

O Merciful God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
who is the resurrection and the life : in whom whosoever 
believeth, shall live, though he die : and whosoever liveth, 
and believeth in him, shall not die eternally ; who also 
hath taught us by his holy Apostle St. Paul not to be sorry, 
as men without hope, for those who sleep in him : We 
humbly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death 
of Sin unto the life of righteousness, that when we shall 
depart this life, we may rest in him ; and that, at the 
general resurrection in the last day, we may be found ac- 
ceptable in thy sight : and receive that blessing, which thy 
well-beloved Son shall then pronounce to all who love and 
fear thee, saying, Come, ye blessed children of my Father, 
receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of 
the world. Grant this we beseech thee, O Merciful Father, 
through Jesus Christ, our Mediator, and Redeemer. Amen. 

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, 
and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, be with us all. Amen, 






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